Oscar Adolfo Gomez, of Jacksonville, was charged with driving drunk and a hit and run accident, reports The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville.
Inside his car at the time: His three children, aged 5, 6, and 9.
Gomez allegedly told police he had three...

Berlin: Put Berlin next to Paris and you have both sides of the coin: romance, which occasionally appeals, and eros, which never fails. "Berlin is sexy," said the German capital's openly gay Mayor Klaus Wowereit, and it's been that way since the...

Baseball
Nov. 28: World Series Club of Hartford. Red Sox radio announcer Joe Castiglione and former Red Sox manager Joe Morgan will be the guest speakers at the World Series Club of Hartford dinner on Nov. 28 at 6 p.m. at the VFW Hall, 83 South Road in...

A Miami Beach artist pleaded guilty to trafficking in protected wildlife Tuesday, after federal prosecutors accused him of importing a vast range of animal parts for use in bizarre sculptures that sold for up to $80,000.
Enrique Gomez De Molina bought...

When the Orioles broke spring training 31/2 months ago to heightened expectations and growing excitement, Robert Andino and Mark Hendrickson grappled with opposite emotions.
Hendrickson, the veteran of nine big league seasons, was facing his first trip to the minors in eight years after failing to make the club. Andino, the talented but enigmatic shortstop who had been designated for assignment a year earlier and pigeonholed as a bench player long before that, defied the odds to make the Opening Day...

Not much is known about Plano, a Western suburb nearly 60 miles outside of Chicago, but that will change starting on Monday. That’s when the star-studded Superman reboot, “Man of Steel,” begins what is scheduled to be a 12-day shoot on the city’s Main Street.
It remains to be seen what exactly will film there (Plano Mayor Bob Hausler and local business owners were asked to sign a confidentiality agreement), but the film sets reveal that the city will play the role of Smallville...

Chicago Public Schools today launched its plan to extend students’ time in the classroom by 90 minutes each and by two weeks each year and set up an advisory committee to figure out how it’ll be done.
However, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis said she would decline an invitation to serve on the committee, saying in a written statement that “this news has nothing do with helping our children and everything to do with politicizing a real serious problem.”
Mayor Rahm...